Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia; and Solicitor Scarlett Anne Wilson, of Charleston, for Petitioner. Appellate Defender Joanna Katherine Delany, for Respondent.

A jury found Randy Wright guilty of assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. Before the jury was discharged, Wright requested the trial court to poll each juror individually. The trial court denied Wright's request, and the court of appeals reversed. State v. Wright, 432 S.C. 365, 852 S.E.2d 468 (Ct. App. 2020). We granted Wright's petition for a writ of certiorari to review the court of appeals' decision.

Appellate Defender Jessica M Saxon, of Columbia, for Petitioner. Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Senior Assistant Attorney General Mark Reynolds Farthing, both of Columbia; and Solicitor David Michael Pascoe, Jr., for Respondent.

The Court granted a petition for a writ of certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in State v. Lawrence, 435 S.C. 231, 865 S.E.2d 800 (Ct. App. 2021). The Court will consider whether the court of appeals erred in affirming the trial court's ruling that Petitioner's co-defendant was not required to testify when he invoked the right against self-incrimination.

Reese R. Boyd, III, of Davis & Boyd, LLC, of Myrtle Beach; and Gene McCain Connell, Jr., of Kelaher, Connell & Connor, PC, of Surfside Beach, both for Appellants. Michael Warner Battle, of Battle Law Firm, LLC, of Conway, for Respondents.

This direct appeal presents a number of constitutional challenges to an amendment of the City of Myrtle Beach's zoning ordinances.

Andrew F. Lindemann, of Lindemann & Davis, P.A., of Columbia, for Defendant. David Allen Chaney, Jr., of Greenville; and Meredith Dyer McPhail, of Columbia, both of American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina, for Plaintiff.

The United States District Court for the District of South Carolina certified the following question for this Court's consideration: Does the South Carolina Sex Offender Registry Act (SORA) permit the publication of out-of-state offenders--i.e., individuals with qualifying sexual offenses but who do not live in South Carolina--on the state's public sex offender registry?